Partial melt or aqueous fluid in the mid-crust of Southern Tibet? Constraints from INDEPTH magnetotelluric data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 289-304

  Li, Shenghui ^a   Unsworth, Martyn J ^b   Booker, John R ^a   Wei, Wenbo ^c   Tan, Handong ^c   Jones, Alan G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrical conductance; Electrical conductivity; Magnetotellurics (MT); Partial melt; Saline fluid; Seismic bright spots; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; PARTIAL MELTING;

CHINA;

EID: 0038814092     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01850.x     Document Type: Article

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